I am not someone who follows/has interest in Geo-politics. In lemmy homepage majority of posts are political. Those lemmy’s I do not expect to have political posts in them like c/technology, c/memes, c/lemmyshitposts, their top posts are related to politics. My subscribed, local, and all is full of it. Is there a way to filter them out?
Everything is political.
With what’s going on in the world? Delete your accounts and go off grid man. That’s the only way now.
There is no single way to completely filter all politics. Keyword filters and blocking communities are your best bet, but not entirely reliable.
Lemmy and the fediverse were pretty much created because of political reasons, so the platforms are always going to be very heavy on politics.
I just block the communities for foreign country’s politics and ignore any political stuff in the other ones.
Human life, human endeavors, human ambitions, are all inherently political. Politics is literally humans disagreeing on something. Technology is politics. Lemmy itself, the Fediverse, the software it’s built on, is inherently a political act of rebellion against corporate controll of discourse. Shitposting was literally invented through political discourse, for political purposes. That’s what it’s always been about.
Wanting to avoid politics is a political choice. It’s Chooseing to be ignorant of the world shaping forces that effect your life and the lives of everyone else.
I’ve got no advice for you.
You do you. But whatever you may do, will be political. There’s no way around that.It is not that deep bro 😭
Being on Lemmy, or an internet forum in general and trying to filter out politics is like going to a political rally and blocking your ears and looking away.
Even Comedian is largely political, reaction youtubers, movies, tv shows, music, paintings, every piece of entertainment has always some political aspect to it. And Lemmy especially, for denying big tech and governments privacy intrusion on our day to day life. Most Lemmy users are moderate-far left leaning, 99% of the posts I see, I can identify some political viewpoints, so it would be very hard to “filter out politics.”
But if you really want to, just find the channels you want and block them, subscribe to mostly apolitical ones.
I can read news through news outlets online which I do from time to time. I just want my lemmy to have tech related posts only. Your comment made me chuckle.
But tech IS political. Can you show me an example of non-political tech?
You signed up on one of the most political instances there is. Switch instances and browse Local. Like the other person suggested, lemmy.zip or programming.dev are both good options.
Does this mean I only see comments from the instance I set up an account with?
No, comments are federated, or else I would be almost an island by my self on my instance
Join Lemmy.zip and just browse the local comms. I believe they are tech centered.
You can manage what posts you see on Lemmy by subscribing to and blocking communities. If you want to get more extensive, even on your own subscriber feed, try applying Regex filters to the RSS feed Lemmy makes from it. (This is also a nice alternative to blocking people while keeping them out of the main feed, for instance if you have them in another one, or hate their posts so much you physically shake)
Great alternative to, say, complaining X instance posts TASS, as if it is fundamentally more unsavory than BBC or Der Spiegel, or asking that Youtube links be banned etc, would be filtering out those URLs with Regex. I love Regex. Teach everyone Regex
Thank you so much I forgot I could do that.
You can use ublock origin filters. It’s not perfect but definitely thins them out.
thanks
See, we have another funny guy here who does not want to read his verified information.
wdym?
Part of this is a misunderstanding of how communities work - C/technology in lemmygrad or hexbear will be explicitly political. Those instances are political. .
There are like 15 different C/memes in the Fediverse, and many of them include a political component.
Also life is political. The media and topics you think are not political are very much political – they just reinforce the status quo.
